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it was. a report accuses over fifty countries of assisting the u.s. in secretly detaining interrogating and torturing terror suspects aboard. the runs president is in a historic visit to cairo with what some friendly egypt looking ready to open a new phase of relations with tehran. and through four m.p.'s in kuwait received three years prison sentences for criticizing the country's leadership despite the nation being held as a democratic race plays out. this is all see coming to you live from moscow. on main story in.
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as many as fifty four countries took part in the cia's secret detention on prisoner rendition program the claim was made in a report from a new york based ngo which claims foreign governments aiders the us and making sure interrogations were out of reach of the law. has more for us. this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another protists appétit in cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing going to be using individuals assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like afghanistan all australia denmark djibouti huge of georgia turkey syria the united arab emirates the united kingdom's yemen italy and even iran
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and just in case you're wondering what iran is doing on the list here's what the report says a yemeni national hussein solemn mohammad on the fed he was captured by iranian authorities in tehran sometime after nine eleven two thousand and one and once was handed over to afghan authorities as part of a prisoner exchange and was held in cia detention in afghanistan so a list of fifty four countries there. while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges there were more the u.s. government has only identified sixteen quote unquote high value detainees italy is the only country where a court has criminally has convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations ten of these the only country to issue an apology to and to agree to an extraordinary rendition victim maher are more here excuse me r r who was rendered to and tortured in syria and only three countries in
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addition to canada and it is sweden australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation to extraordinary rendition victims this report is ripe with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s. government has classified everything related to its torture practices any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. so there are plenty of countries implicated in and that should last a singular i say kidnapping and torture of terror suspects and former private investigator douglas not in time believes america it's purposely exaggerating the threat of terrorism to impose its military power won't wind the war on terror and sell through the. overstatement vast overstatement of the dangers that exist in the it's been proven to get us to that we simply created more enemies
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in iraq we've created more enemies the war on terror is a war and war killing torturing detaining people is not a way to bring over its resolve problems the way to resolve problems is through people trying to understand each other through reach accommodations to do things diplomatically it's a situation that exists right now is that the united states knows the military overhand that it's not willing to give that up but having built three over here that kind of force its will all round the world and the war on terror is simply a simple pretext for doing what it illustrates is that the government has since nine eleven more capable propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government is able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the
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planet earth and some of the person that's been bully. the truth is exactly the opposite with the u.s. security policy coming in. vice president is getting an inside look at what other nations are planning to go by to get a front line yield british security by sitting amongst the country's top intelligence officials in downing street. the visit of iranian leader to egypt the first in more than three decades is seen as a sign that the middle east heavyweights and moving closer president ahmadinejad who is under pressure from western states over his nation's nuclear program is attending a muslim summit to discuss security issues with egypt's mohamed morsi so egypt and iran severed relations after the islamic revolution and they further deteriorated after egypt's peace treaty with israel morse's you had sponsored rise to power out of egypt's uprising is seen as a major hurdle to to better ties with iran which are strongly opposed to the
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current revolt in syria but some analysts believe you can be door open to the islamic republic shows cairo is pursuing a more independent foreign policy than its predecessor and neil clark told michael rebuilt on that iraq needs all the funds it can get. around strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been a brutal ally of iran all this is the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans why the saudis etc so keen to talk. now there's no such moment the syrian government is about what we're all going around would be even more isolated going to use today and a very dangerous position so that's what makes sense for iran to be trying to build bridges with. all of their financial motives behind this meeting where we got to believe the economy is going bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions that appearing to have a quantum impact on the iranian economy do you do they both need each other i think they do bill and i think probably more the point of view i think as we've seen are
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people at the wall going to rest in egypt but people are very unhappy with how things are going to get seen carrying on mubarak. and should people are on the run to be one way in which you can say to these people look i'm not just a us puppet. i am going to be different here so i think from his point and he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iraq and could be ready for it if you course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran we really can use a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get there's no reason for iran to be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which there's no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's wrong but it should be totally isolated the u.s. vice president has gained exclusive access to london security plans of a sitting in on a downing street meeting fresh from this instead berlin or paris joe biden that prime minister david cameron and got the inside give from britain's military and
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intelligence chiefs artie's southard has now and then president of access. for the vice president he's known for sometimes putting his foot in his mouth it could of almost being another gaffe but some a very quick to point out when he said that he talks of being delighted to have been invited to that meeting and of having spent half his life in security meetings in the u.s. but people are quick to point out you don't actually have a spoke for years on the u.s. national security council he can be forgiven for that possibly he was referring to other security commitments but during his visit to downing street this is what part of what he took part in he was invited to this national security council meeting it was chaired by prime minister david cameron and it is thought that what was on the agenda and talks about there were issues such as syria afghanistan iran and north africa now it's not unheard of foreign nationals to attend u.k.
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national security council meetings although it certainly is not common practice now perhaps that's a sign of as jay biden made mention to the special relationship that britain and the u.s. enjoy he spoke of the u.s. and britain as having the most open relationship that they have with any country in the world well that's all well and good but is a satisfactory relationship everyone want to talk more about that i'm doing by a member of the u.k. independence party stephen wolf thank you very much joining us from relationships that's going to that is it really beneficial day for everyone i'm not sure about chile i mean it should be we are and we are two countries that actually share common values in terms of our legal systems of language the way that we look at business and it should be but over the period of the years that we have this special relationship to winston churchill first quarter the friends we see lots of
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arguments between also on those you state clearly there was a huge to. agreed in the way that the british public did not want to get involved in afghanistan we also had a disagreement in the way that we did not want to get in vietnam and only recently we've heard president obama suggesting that the british people should not exercise the democrats. have a referendum of whether they should be around some of the european union so clearly the special relationship is for some time still i think there's also. a special. now retreat for the syrians for being war those displaced by the conflict that lines to stay in the country rather than take shelter in jordanian refugee camps well explain why. people absolutely describe the mood. in the most horrible circumstances. didn't they should have to
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go through what she. doesn't have patients. because of stuff negligence as a public inquiry after this break. three
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. three. three. three. three. three. three down below for you the media. revealed the r t dot com. thanks. this is the life for moscow welcome back kuwait has been praised for its pioneering role in democracy ranking fast among gulf states for freedom of the press but reality of that can be difference they form opposition m.p.'s were sentenced to prison terms for criticizing the ruling and made his policies to
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activists were also sentenced to ten five years for writing anti regime messages on twitter and history traces says quaid will not react to pressure unless it comes from washington. kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so if you were to have destabilization in kuwait and you were to have the western community the international community as it's called committee in damned the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states and their agenda for the region the monarchies are looking around and they're seeing a democratization a wave of democratic upsurge in the region and they know that their regimes will
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not withstand it unless they're able to crack down on these forces and to maintain their strategic position within the imperial system so on the one hand they crack down on the opposition on the other hand they maintain very positive business relations with washington with london with paris and so forth jordan is struggling with massive influx of syrian refugees saying the number could exceed seven hundred thousand they say they just don't have a government says it will be able to accept in many more expected if president assad falls although some syrians are deciding to take that chance against bullets and as tri-x. at home rather suffered the school in counts has this account for the record. they come here to escape the hell of war as many as fifty thousand in the last month alone yet all too often in jordan psaltery camp hope gives way to despair no i don't have nothing when we left home why is this happening why isn't anyone here
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to help us too many people and not enough help the sprawling tent city is the largest camp for syrians fleeing their war ravaged nation but it's ballooned well beyond capacity there are shortages of food blankets medical supplies just about everything. there are so many of us how can they provide for everyone we are called there is no a tricity i have two children and there are no diapers for them i'm forced to back from my friends and family most refugees complain about the quality of water toilets and the harsh desert winter they describe the frustration of spending hours and queues only to find out supplies have run out the dismal conditions have sparked a series of riots in recent months turning refugees against aide workers and one another at that no one is helping each other if you want to get bread you need a knife by your side to fight for it it's gas chaos that's simply too much for some
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seventy year old automatons avi says that he would have preferred a death in syria to life in the camps well if i stayed in syria it would have been better for me they would have killed me yes but it's better than coming here and being humiliated like this i'm a sick old man why he wants to go through this. despite its shortcomings the camp still offers refuge from the gunfire and airstrikes ravaging syria and more help could be on the way at a recent conference in kuwait the un got more than one point five billion dollars worth of pledges to aid the conflict stricken syrians but there are concerns it may not be enough we don't know how many more will be coming we have we don't know how many more will cross tonight we have no idea how many more there will be by the end of the week here in jordan or in the lawn or into a can it's not a situation which is going to be over very soon and therefore yes it is a strain on the countries of course a strain that jordan may not be able to handle much longer. you know the syrian
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refugees arrived in jordan a country of limited resources at a time when is experiencing its greatest economic challenge ever nonetheless we gave them all we could whether if the number of refugees keeps growing will struggle to help them this is the reality. but many camp residents have grown weary of waiting for help unable to live in dignity in neighboring countries some syrians are returning home these families are waiting to get on buses that will take them back well you know i've been here for three days but after all i've seen in this camp i'm probably more right to go back to syria there's killing there but here we live worse than animals kind of existence. hundreds of thousands of syrians came to jordan seeking a better life but here at the sob story refugee camp lives are collapsing all over again they fled syria to escape a bloody war only to find themselves fighting
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a fresh battle just to survive to seek out front of r t al-zawahiri refugee camp in jordan. and update now on this severe eight point zero magnitude earthquake which struck near the solomon islands one end off me to wave of waves and followed the quake near their on and at least four people have reportedly been killed and several villages destroyed but tsunami warnings issued elsewhere in the south pacific have been counseled governments had ordered people to flee to higher ground and you can follow live updates on this developing story on all his twitter feed. so much local news making headlines this hour the french military assisted by local militia has taken control of the last major city to remain in control of islamist militants paris estimate one hundred rebels have been killed since the offensive in mali began last month but while that cause has been swept some reports suggest the french let it liberation campaign has also caused the civilian casualties the
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french foreign minister has hinted to the operation may be over by. only justice department memos to jazz the u.s. government allows drone strikes on its citizens abroad the report. which i don't think americans even know that considered to be merely plotting against the u.s. and it's not does not have to be considered imminent for a suspect to beat on. the u.k.'s national house has been shaken by a public inquiry into what seen as the worst health care scandal in decades and investigation into the deaths of patients at a stuff that hospital alleges stoffel freighted negligent managers turned a blind eye to falls because they were focused on cutting costs. heard the stories of people who lost their loved ones that. my wife started hospital in september two thousand and eight it was just a disaster is just totally ok. when you walk through the door of the world if you
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smell it people show to me no staff available to find and. those who is left to reach. or in two months new shoes on the floor we've been there since breakfast on. should be. line right for you see. medication wasn't given to. the death of john's wife is just one of the many horror stories term marriage from the now notorious stafford hospital relatives say it was a lack of compassion on behalf of the staff that stripped many sick people of their dignity so much evil that sandy would describe i didn't want the same thing they were going to be next thing. which is not what they really cared about chesney person. in the most horrible circumstances.
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no he wouldn't be she'd have to go through what she's going to need to know to whom to take it into said. julie baby's mother died at stafford in what she calls appalling circumstances but when she blew the whistle on the hospital's practice says she was faced with a cover up all the evidence was there that the hospital mid staffs was failing and yet the that. never shared with the public and i believe the same as in all the hospitals. is just the. on performance isn't shared with the public. she's kept it in. surgical department that was the most dangerous and dysfunctional that the royal college of surgeons has ever encountered but the public would ever told us and now it's emerged that a string of senior officials failed to take seriously data which showed the
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hospital significantly higher than average death rates relatives of over a thousand people never got to see them discharged from the hospital patients died needlessly off the suffering a catalogue of neglect left in their own excrement dehydrated and without painkillers it's the biggest scandal to have hit the national health service in recent years but with budgets being slashed and red tape preoccupying hospital manages a person's health secretary is warning that there are little bits of stuff that dotted all across the u.k.'s health system the results of the public inquiry into the hospital's failings are expected to issue a damning verdict on the way the whole of the n.h.s. functions they sold the story. as a bit of stuff that everybody got to make say you know it's got to be made safe tomorrow because people can't continue to suffer it's like saying well it's ok for people to be homed really isn't it's got to stop but even with the glare of
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a public inquiry and the media spotlight it hasn't stopped last month it emerged that a former told baby being treated for breathing problems was found with a dummy taped to his mouth to keep him quiet the nice being investigated for the incident is the third member of staff at star to be disciplined in the last six months the hospital's chief executive has said west sorry that despite the progress that has been made there are still some instances. care which fall below that which we want to provide sorry might be too late but the tide of public anger swelling campaigners say it's time for westminster to overhaul britain's beleaguered health service before any more lives and needlessly lost polly boyko r t stafford. also lined up the best stories from around the globe now website for you under this time david cameron says his major breakthrough in strengthening the
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nation is after the british parliament approves a bill that will allow same sex couples to marry yet one of the members of the ruby conservative party world today against it so had to alter dot com to find out what caused the spread. also online argentina accuses the u.k. of a polonium grab for oil and natural resources say it will take the falkland islands back within twenty years because not a single country in the world supports britain's claims on the territory offer you an article. on the whole maybe a troubling tradition for many russian plane passengers but it could soon become illegal on flights russian lawmakers are thinking of buying people from carrying duty free alcohol on board after a series of drunken brawls on international flights. are now reports. please make sure your seat belts are fastened the tray table is securely stowed and the russian passenger next to you is not intoxicated out of his mind this could well become the
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pre-taped off message airlines that often cater to tourists from russia passport tickets and alcohol if they are russian of course in fact the first thing that many russians do when traveling abroad on a holiday or just a simple trip they had a duty free stores to get the bottle of liquor they're going to take along with them of course there is a lot of air was that prohibit drinking on board but that doesn't stop many passengers if there is a will there is always a way to sneak that bottle on the plane. recently cases of unruly drunks have been springing up one after another one man attacked a police officer and the v.i.p.'s zone in a moscow airport thinking he was still in another country a different man and fifty four year old businessman on his way to the egyptian resort of god that lit up a cigarette and literally hit back at a flight attendant who tried to stop him the confrontation spiraled into an all out
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brawl on board something if i had known table one pretty much he was demanding something crazy he was forcing himself into a cockpit everyone was trying to hold him back and he was yelling let me out and forcing his way into the pilot's seat here yet here's the catch though the resume normal in russia that would allow airlines to restrain much less to punish a mentally customers in fact flight attendants technically are not even allowed to physically subdue anyone having a fit of rage on their plane and that doesn't fly over well with the country's main airline that used that notion could mean we could buy from one to our crews on board to be able to restrain such brash injures we need a law for that and we also want to minster the current air code which would allow not just their flag but all air carriers to be able to refuse service to best interest of korea. it is a problem on board passengers like to see on the leg honeymooners worst a plane heading for thailand to land in is that the stag it was after their festive
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mood quickly soured and turned into a fight when a flight attendant told them to cut down on the liquor consumption they stated two reasons for drinking fear following and celebrating their marriage this type of emotional travel drinking has gotten russian lawmakers thinking very seriously so we're not too distant future it seems passengers will be able to keep their emotions bottled up in moscow it engulfs grow our team. and our back with more news for you in about half an hour up next the obsession which comes with advanced technology special report gaming for life.

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